How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

This adventure has taken us farther than we thought we wanted to go and left us wanting more (in a good way). As the story continues, be ready as it'll take you further than you thought you wanted to go.

Original Review:

It's not often when a sequel reaches the expectations from where the original left off, much less surpassing that mark. This does that and more. We are welcomed back into Berk 5 years after the end of the 1st movie. Everyone has a pet dragon. Instead of making tools and weapons to fight with, they now make items that help them with the dragons. Perfect harmony... Or so it seems. Our well-known character from the first movie, Hiccup and his companion Toothless wander the seas looking to map out more of the world. What they find is something much more... A dragon army... led by a ruthless foe of Stoick. This quest leads to much more than that though... A heartwarming reunion. The glee of that is short lived as we experience heartache soon after. Berk will be forever changed. We see a progression of friendships that grow and bloom, love that grows and is lost, and what loyalty really means. The story centers on some of the characters but we don't see as much of the other ones as in the 1st movie. Saying that this answers a lot of questions and leaves room for another sequel... If they do it as well as they did this, let's hope so.

Notes:

Hiccup, toothless, Astrid, stoick, ruffnut, tuffnut, Berk, gronckle, nadder, zippleback, monstrous nightmare, night Fury, gobber, fishlegs, snotlout, ruffnut, tuffnut, Astrid, thunderdrum, timberjack, scauldron, changewing, the skrill, bone knapper, whispering death, Cressida Cowell, starkard, hoark the haggard, phlegma the fierce, spitelout, berkians, dragon racing, barf and belch, stormfly, meatlug, big baby boo, itchy armpit, terrible terrors, drago bludvist, eret son of eret, pride of berk, grump, dargo bloody fist, gods help us all, a chief protects his own, deadly nadder, men who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with, a mother never forgets, skullcrusher, snafflefang, raincutter, hobblegrunt, valka, cloudjumper, bewilderbeast, king of all dragons, dragon island, stoick the vast, thank Odin, stoick valka song, dragon master, it takes more than a little fire to kill me, now you know where I get my dramatic flair, class ten, good dragons under the control of bad people do bad things, I'm not the chief that you wanted me to be, I'm not the peacekeeper I thought I was, you have the heart of a chief and the soul of a dragon, a chief protects his own, the alpha protects them all, ug, teeny,

I'll swim and sail on savage seas with ne'er a fear of drowning, and gladly ride the waves of life if you will marry me, no scorching sun nor freezing cold will stop me on my journey, if you will promise me your heart and love me for eternity, my dearest one my darling dear your mighty words astound me, but I've no need of mighty deeds when I feel your arms around me, but I will bring you rings of gold and even sing you poetry, and I would keep you from all harm if you would stay beside me, I have no use for rings of gold I care not for your poetry, I only want your hand to hold I only want you near me, to love and kiss to sweetly hold for the dancing and the dreaming, through all my sorrows and your lights I'll keep your laugh inside me, I'll swim and sail the savage seas with ne'er a fear of drowning, and gladly ride the waves of life if you will marry me,

May the Valkyries welcome you and lead you through Odin's great battlefield,
May they sing your name with love and fury so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla and know that you've taken your rightful place at the table of kings,
For a great man has fallen, a warrior, a chieftain, a father, a friend,

[00:00:00] Hello once again and welcome back to Movie Deputy Reviews. I hope that you enjoyed yesterday's episode and are coming back for the second in this series as we are talking about how to train your Dragon 2 today. This one actually came out the same year I started Movie Deputy, and when I saw that there was going to be a sequel to the original how to Train youn Dragon, I was so excited. And I'm not going to leave you in the lurch. I'm actually going to just open up and let you know right away that this one really surpass the mark because this one's even better than the first one. Now. It's a lot more there. You're a lot more emotionally invested. This one, you will cry if you are at all of an emotional person in any way, shape or form. This one will bring the tears and so you need the tissues. [00:00:48] This one did get a 7.25 out of 10 on the deputy scale. Now you're what you're fighting. Wait a minute. That's a quarter point higher than the first one. Yep, that. [00:00:57] That it is. [00:00:58] And that is because the depth of the story and where this really takes us and the expansion of the story to where we get to see not. [00:01:10] Not only how Toothless, like Toothless has grown, but we also get to see how Hiccup has matured as well. [00:01:19] And then, of course, you know, Astrid is going to be a big part of the story as well, and all the other young Vikings too. So I don't want to forget. They are all such big parts of this story in different ways. And you really kind of get to identify their different categories of where they fit in with society. You have got the jock and you have got the nerd, and you have got the girly girl, and you've got the. Just the. The creepy guy and you have the. The. The chicks chick type gal. The just where I want to be a tough guy, but I also want to be popular type girl. [00:01:54] And then, of course, we still have Hiccup here, who is still just as awkward as you can imagine. [00:02:00] Now, I do want to share with you the original review that I had had up on moviedevity.com I just feel it's an important thing to share. And then, don't worry, we're going to talk about the movie a little bit more. And yes, this movie did have an innocent rating. All three of these how to Train youn Dragon movies do have an innocent rating. You're gonna have to wait a little bit longer to find out about the live action version, but trust me, it's gonna be worth it. [00:02:23] It's not often when a sequel reaches the expectations from where the original left off, much less surpassing that mark. [00:02:30] This does that and more. We are welcomed back into Burke five years after the end of the first movie. [00:02:37] Everyone has a pet dragon. Instead of making tools and weapons to fight with, they now make items to help them with the dragons perfect harmony. [00:02:49] Or so it seems. [00:02:50] Our well known character from the first movie, Hiccup and his companion Toothless, wander the seas looking to map out more of the world. [00:03:00] What they find is something much more a dragon army led by a ruthless foe of Stoic. [00:03:08] This quest leads to much more than that. Though it's a heartwarming reunion, the glee of that is short lived as we experience heartache soon after, Burke will be forever changed. We see a progression of friendships that grow and bloom, love that grows and is lost, and what loyalty really means. [00:03:34] The story centers on some of the characters, but we don't see much of some of the other ones as we do in the first movie. [00:03:42] Saying that this answers a lot of questions and leaves room for yet another sequel. [00:03:48] If they do it as well as they did this. Let's hope so. [00:03:53] So as you can kind of see, this movie kind of goes a little bit above and beyond because not only are we seeing the transformation of the human dragon relationship, but we are also seeing a lot more development of the characters. Now if you've seen the first movie, you know that Hiccup's mom is nowhere in the story whatsoever because it is thought that she had died. And if you're at all familiar with these movies at all, that's not really a spoiler. The fact that they find her and that is, that's kind of the reunion part that I was talking about. [00:04:28] And the thing is that they do manage to find her. And finding her is not just the simple thing of finding her. It is. [00:04:38] There's so much more that's going to happen with that part of the story. [00:04:41] Now the loss that I'm referring to that I will not spoil, but a main character that you know in this story, something happens and it is just. It almost seems like it's too much to get through. And I, when I saw this for the first time, to say that I needed a tissue is an understatement. I mean I was sobbing. Not just like a little sniffle, but I meant like full on sobbing. [00:05:09] It was just almost too much. [00:05:12] Not, not like too much where I wanted to leave the movie or anything like that. But I was just like, how could they take the story in that direction? What is that going to do to the story? What's that going to do for the Vikings? What's that going to do for the dragons? What's it going to do for Burke? I mean, you're going to wonder all of that and so much more. [00:05:33] But along with this, they end up finding something a lot more because they don't just find this foe of stoics that has all these dragons. [00:05:49] He hunts dragons and he does really horrible things with them to create this dragon army. [00:05:55] And there's just so much to what's going on here. And like, we see. We see the development of all of these characters and everything. [00:06:05] And as I keep wanting to say, Toothless, but it's Hiccup. As Hiccup is mapping out the world, he, like I was saying, he's like, he finds much more than he was looking for. [00:06:18] And what he, like, what they find will truly change everything. Now because of where they leave this, they really do leave this on a bit of a cliffhanger. They really kind of take this further than you'd think. And the fact that we did not know that there was going to be another movie, we are just left almost like going, you can't stop the story there. It's like when you are reading a book in a series and where you know there's the next book, so you know the. The story is going to continue. [00:06:53] This kind of does that to you at the end, except you don't know that there's going to be another movie when they do this, because you're just left and you're gripping the edge of your seat and you're like. [00:07:02] And you're waiting for a bonus scene. You're waiting for all this and there's not one. And you're like, okay, you can't leave the story here. We need to know what happens. [00:07:11] And thankfully, we do know that five years after this one, we would get another how to Train youn Dragon movie. I can't believe it took them that long to do it, but I mean, it's a lot of work doing it at the same time. [00:07:23] Now, the development and the reasons why they took this one the way that they did makes sense in the next one. So if you watch this one, you've got to be prepared to sit down and just do a back to back with this one in the next movie. [00:07:38] I think because of everything that this one takes you through, that you need to see that progression into the next story. [00:07:49] I'M trying to think how to say why would I want to say without giving away a big spoiler, but let's just say that they forgive this just the dead silence. I'm not trying to do that to you, but like I always say, it's like I don't script any of these ahead of time. [00:08:06] I real I didn't even script like the old review. I just kind of read that off the website. But yeah, this is just let's just say that it answers a lot of questions. [00:08:19] The the next movie will answer a lot of the questions that you have at the ending of this one, because at this one you are going to feel like a piece of your heart got ripped out and tr but the next movie will give it right back. So I hope that that helps a little bit. I didn't mean to ramble on there for a moment, so bear with me. If you can handle my quirkiness and these interrogations for these movies, I hope that you, of course, hit the like and subscribe buttons and come back tomorrow for how to Train youn Dragon, the Hidden World.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

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